I've gone ... to @mmcksck.bsky.social. And I've made a website with a blog (!) where I update on the book project and other things art, science, and imagining

Featuring a cast of @yokoono, #Beckett, #Barthes, and other goodies, it’s about how both art and psychotherapy instruct us to imagine, but to different ends, and what that says about society. Also my best title yet.

@ZackHawes8 Thanks Zack, that's kind of you!

Lovely to speak to @hervenirom about #art and #imagining, and to find myself sounding much more profound than I ever do in English

A free bit in @NewYorker on cognitive diversity - and can be listened to, which is nice

and my ‘Ut Pictura Poesis’ explores the possibility that critics’ imagery experience has influenced the history of poetry … 🤔

@clementinejenna Hello, sorry for the delay, I'm not on here as much as I'd like to be - thank you for reading the article, do email me at m.mackisack@exeter.ac.uk

@Carolin40924519 - so an aphantasic might compose the picture 'as they go', with the materials at hand. Would be interested to hear if that is true for other aphantasic artists!

@Carolin40924519 Hi, thanks for your message, good to hear from an aphantasic artist. By environment I mean the material and surfaces directly available to the individual, rather than the landscape -

RT @BBCFreeThinking: If you want illuminating ideas about electricity 💡 check out this discussion @BBCRadio3 @ahrcpress @beinghumanfest @ca…

Visual illusions on the radio! Tune in to @BBCFreeThinking tonight to hear psychologist @kerblooee talking Ganzflicker, the exhibition opening tomorrow @AtkinsonThe

Like art? Like science? Partial to drug-free mind expansion? You need Ganzflicker, an exhibition opening @AtkinsonThe on Friday 11 November. A @BeingHumanFest event, created with @kerblooee and featuring artist Kirsten Baron

Flicker-induced psychedelic experience? Yes please! New article with @kerblooee in @ConversationUK

There is no psychological constitution uniquely suited for making art. Art-making does not, never has, require visual mental imagery. But for some, imagining is essential to making. As William James said, we should speak of ‘imaginations’, not ‘the’ imagination.